The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-05-25

posing n swindlc or fraud, and with a
feigned economy for the public schools!
Here is his language, which, with a fair
construction, means that, and nothing
else:
sit is enough to know that they have
carefully and successfully avoided pub
licity till their work was nearly or quite
done"
That is to say, they did not advertise
in the Herald, and''carefully and success
fully avoided publicity"
Are his skirts clean? If not, he should
not parade his denunciations and make
himself so conspicuous to carry out some
secret, m%ercenary motive, which seems
to have influenced him to write that out
rageous article.
If those agents who introduced the
charts he has so vehemently denounced
had placed a $50 advertisement in the
rapert to which he claims allegiance, does
anyone think he would have had any
cause or %provocation to "kick?" or think
that his proclamation in the interest of
the public schools would have been is
| sued?
Let me refreshen his memory in re-
gard to some of the outrageous swindles
which have been perpetrated upon the
patrons of the district schools Of II ter
| ritory. One consisted of the wholesale
and repeated change of textbooks, which
was of no particular benefit to scholars
or anyone else. except the paid advocates,
VINO were a host, and the publishers.
Having been a trustee, at different
| times, for more than ten years, l have
good reason to know the hardships it
worked upon many patrons of the dis
trict schools, and they have almost al
ways condemned it as a fraud in the inter
est of II few. 1t would be well to treas
ure up these little things and tell where
he stood then. Did he raise his eloquent
voice against this and other outrages? or
did he whisper "sotto voce" and perhaps
was not heard except by a small circlef
l regard Yaggy's anatomical chart as a
very important auxiliary to the district
school, and would recommend that he
take a course in physiology and that his
teacher use the aforesaid chart to illus
trate, for it shows very. plainly and accu'
rately the effects which narcotics and al
coholic spirits produce upon the human
system, one of which is the gradual dy'
ing and whitening of the brain in the
forehead, and consequently the early o.
premature decay of the intellect.
l know he has studied physiology be-
fore, but that was in his younger days
when he did not have this chart to teacl
these secrets of the human system, Of
perhaps he would have had a healthier
and better balanced brain, of which he
seems TO now stand in need.
1t seems that common courtesy, which
is due from one gentleman to another
would have suggested that his Charge
were too severe and vindictive to hav'
been written simply in public defens'
and without n compensation, and if hi
language had been tempered with word,
of milder character, perhaps it wonld
have produced n better effect upon the
public. for wholesale abuse. covered witt
gross charges. is not ALWAYS proof o.
guilt. where circumstances strongly indi.
cate that the statements were made 70
n commentator.
A plain statement of the case woul,
have been sufficient to have satisfied al
most any fair-minded writer who desire,
to deal nonorably by the accused. as wei
as being sufficient to give public inform
alton, without being embellished witt
such outrageous charges and gross insin
uations which flowed from the pen q
the cultured writer,
Pertains 1t NAV be said that some O
the country trustees are somewhat de
fcient in book learning, but for 200,
common horse sense and practical ideas